Localized plasticity in the streamlined genomes of vinyl chloride respiring Dehalococcoides

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  McMurdie, Paul J ^a   Behrens, Sebastian F ^a   Müller, Jochen A ^b   Göke, Jonathan ^a   Ritalahti, Kirsti M ^c   Wagner, Ryan ^c   Goltsman, Eugene ^d   Lapidus, Alla ^d   Holmes, Susan ^a   Löffler, Frank E ^c   Spormann, Alfred M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VINYL CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLOROFLEXI; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOGENATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METABOLISM;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

CHLOROFLEXI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; VINYL CHLORIDE;

EID: 73649122427     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000714     Document Type: Article

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